Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-24

diseases, and that if they would only be-
lieVe their sickness would depart. saw q
woman near me, With hand and arm twisted
of rheumatism, and her wrist was fiery
with infiammatioR and it lookedl like those
cases of chronic rheumatism that we have
sill seen and sympathized with, cases
beyond all human healing. At the
preachers reiterstion of the words:
"Will you believe? Do you believe? Do
you believe now?" l heard this poor
sick woman say, with an emphasis which
sounded through the building:
"I DO BELIEVE"
And then she laid her twisted arm and
hand out as straight as your arm and
hand, or mine. If l had seen one rise
from the dead 1 would not have been
much more thrilled. Since then believe
that God will do anything in answer to
our prayer and in answer to our faith,
and he can heal our bodies, and If our
soul is all twisted and misshapen of
revenge and hate and inflamed with sinful
proclivity he can straighten that also and
make it well and clean. Aye, you VIII
not postpone till shutdown forgiveness OF
enemies if you can realize that their be-
haVior towards you may be put into
the catalogue of the "all things" that
"work together for good to those that
love God" l have had multitudes
of friends, but 1 have found in
my own experience that God so
arranged it that the greatest
opportunities OF usefulness that have
been opened before me were opened by
enemies. And when, years ago, they
conspired against me, that opened all
Christendom to me as field in which to
preach the Gospel. So you may harness
your antagonists to your best interests
and compel them to draw you on to
better work ana higher character. Sup
pose, instead OF waiting until six minutes
past O'Clock this evening, when the
sun will set, you transact this glorious
work of forgiveness before meridian.
Again: We ought not to let the sun go
down on our wrath, because We will
sleep better If we are at peace with
everybody Insomnia is getting to be
one of the most prevalent of disorders.
How few people retire at 10 O'Clock at
night and sleep clear through to in the
morning! To relieve this disorder all
narcotics and sedatives. and chloral and
bromide of potassium, and cocaine and
1ntoxicants are used, but nothing is more
important than q quiet spirit if we would
win somnolence. How Is man
GOING TO SLEEP
when he is in mind pursuing an enemy?
With what nervous twitch he will start
out Of sIdream! That new plan for cor
nering his foe will keep him wide awake
while the clock strikes eleven, twelve,
one, two, three, four. I give you an I'M
failing prescription for wakefulness:
Spend the evening hours rehesrsing
your wrongs and the best way of
avenging them. Hold q convention
of friends on this subject in your parlor
or Office st s and 9 O'Clock. Close the
evening by writing bitter letter express
ing your sentiments. Take from the
desk or pigeon hole the papers in the
case to refresh your mind with your
evenings meanness. Then lie down and
wait for the coming of the day, and 1t
will come before sleep comes, or your
sleep will be worried qulescence and, il
you take the precaution to lie fist on your
back, frightful nightmare. Why not
put bound to your luminosity? Why
let your foes come into the sauctities Of
your dOrmitOrJ? sWhy let those SLAM
derers who have already torn your repu-
tation to pieces or injured your business,
bend over your midnight pillow and drive
from you one of the greatest blessings
that God csn offeT-sWeet, refreshing, all
invigoratiDg sleep. Why not fence out
your enemies by the golden bars of the
sunset? Why not stand behind the barri-
csde Of the evening cloud and say to
them: "Thus far and no farther" Many
man and many woman is having the
heGlth CT body as we'll as the health of
soul eaten away by a malevolent spirit.
have in time Of religious awakening had
persons, night after night, come into the
inquiry room and get no peace of soul.
After while l have bluntly asked her:
"Is there not some one against whom you
have hstred that you are not willing to
give up?" After a little confusion she
has slightly whispered, "Yes." Then 1
said to her: "You will never find peace
with God as long as you retain that
virulence."
a boy in Sparta having
STOLE A FOX
kept him under his coat and, though the
fox was gnaWing his vitals, he submitted
to it rather than expose his misdeed
Many man with smiling face has un-
der his jscket an animosity that is gnsw-
ing away the strength of his body and the
that hidden fox as soon as possible.
There are hundreds OF domestic circles
where that which most is needed is the
spirit of forgiveness. Brothers apart
and sisters apart, and parents and chill
dren apart. Solomon ssys q brother
offended is harder to be won than
strong city. Are there not enough sacred
memories of your childhood to bring you
together? The rabbits account how that
Nebuchadnezzar's son had such spite
against his father that after he was dead
he had his father burned to ashes aud
then put the ashes into four sacks and
tied them to four eagles necks which
few away in opposite directions. And
there are now domestic antipathies that
seem forever to have scattered all paren-
tai memories to the flour winds of heaven.
How far the eagles fly with that secr
ashes! The hour of shutdown makes to
that family no practical suggestion.
Thomas Csrlysle in his biography of
Frederick the Great says the ola King was
told by the confessor he must be at peace
with his enemies il he wanted
to enter heaven. Then he said
to his wife. the Queen: "Write